Alabama

YOUR VIEW: Democrats acted this way before

In the selection of Elisabeth French instead of Judge Nikki Still as a replacement candidate for Kenya Lavender Marshall, it appears Joe Reed and his cohorts on the State Democratic Executive Committee have said: Well, so much for the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King that someday people would be judged by what is in their hearts and mind and not by the color of their skin.

It seems that, for them, the highway to adjusting attitudes and racial equality has been converted into a one-way street.

It is perhaps understandable that Reed, by his long association with the Alabama Education Association, might be infected by AEA chief Paul Hubbert's philosophy of "for me and mine," but that Reed could have converted two-thirds of the committee to this creed is distressing. Don't the Democrats remember from a few years ago the disastrous consequences to their party when they acted in a similar manner in the selection of a gubernatorial candidate?